The great books in Denmark and Norway

In Denmark, Lindhardt og Ringhof publishes a number of the Dane’s favourite authors such as Maren Uthaug, Thomas Korsgaard, Merete Pryds Helle and Knud Romer, all of whom have received the Danish Booksellers’ Award of Honour, The Golden Laurels. The publishing house is also strong in translated literature with Karl Ove Knausgård, Alex Schulman, Bret Easton Ellis, Margaret Atwood, Barack Obama and Paul Auster among the heavyweights.  

Denmark’s largest publisher of children’s books, Carlsen, and largest digital publisher, SAGA, are also part of Lindhardt og Ringhof, just as Denmark’s leading learning house Lindhardt og Ringhof Uddannelse creates books and digital solutions for the entire education sector. 

A new collaboration between Lindhardt og Ringhof and Cappelen Damm in Norway is to ensure strong literary works across the Nordic region. 

“Through Egmont, we have joined the large Norwegian publishing house Cappelen Damm, which has strengthened our international collaborations. First and foremost, we have significantly expanded our Nordic portfolio,” says Sune de Souza Schmidt-Madsen, Director of Fiction, Lindhardt og Ringhof. 

Cappelen Damm was responsible for one of the best-selling Norwegian books of 2023 when Haakon – Stories from an Heir about and by Norway’s crown prince went straight to the bestseller lists and received high praise from the critics.  

Norway’s largest publishing house publishes around 3,000 titles each year in both fiction and non-fiction, education, as well as children’s and young adult books. International bestselling authors such as Ken Follett, Lucinda Riley and Valérie Perrin are published in Norway by Cappelen Damm, as are Norwegian authors such as Vigdis Hjorth, Roy Jacobson and Abid Raja, Norway’s former Minister of Culture, whose autobiography My Guilt is a bestseller in Norway.